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I have always grown up with the idea of using an analog timepiece is far preferable to the digital. Aesthetically I have always preferred the analog: I love the round physicality of space that shows where I am in the [...]
One of the most difficult aspects of user interface design is figuring out how much content to put on the screen. There's a balance between showing enough useful at-a-glance information versus white space to make it more aesthetically pleasing [...]
Straight up - I'm not a watch guy. I gave up watches over twenty years ago when I got my first PDA - the Newton. I love the idea of watches and I love the design and aesthetics of watches [...]
Ultimately the choice is to release a new version of Informant for Android and do what we can to ease the transition for existing users to the new app; or drop Android altogether. For years we've heard how Apple's review process [...]
Last year we did a survey that gave us a ton of insight into what we were doing well and what we were doing poorly. With those results we designed Informant 4 for iOS and Android, and also version 4.5 [...]
We started work on 4.55 in mid-December to continue optimizing, fixing, and all around polishing Informant for iOS up. 6 weeks later we were ready to submit it as 4.55 and we realized that we had done enough new [...]
OK so the screenshots are a bit of a tease, but I wanted to at least show you that yes it does exist. I'm not showing screenshots of the Focus view because its in another branch of our source-repo [...]
A long time ago I used to use a couple apps called Now Contact and Now Calendar on Mac OS 7/8/9. They were fantastic: fast, reliable, and their UI was great. When OS X came out they spent years [...]
Back in the summer we talked a little about our Mac Desktop plans and its been awhile so I wanted to give you a status update. Chris has been hard at work on Mac Desktop for almost a year. [...]
As I've blogged about before, I've been working on 4.1 for iOS for awhile, but what may not be all that obvious is that I've spent a lot of time trying to improve our interface and look. These changes [...]